Most of the people who run for lieutenant governor in Alaska like to think they will be allowed to do more by the governor than run elections and maintain custody of the state seal. They will reinvent the role of the lieutenant governor. It almost never works out.
But in the case of Al Rowe, we really would have had a “new kind of lieutenant governor.” Exactly what kind is hard to say. Explosive? Combative? Impossible?
Read MoreSubmitted for your approval: The second-greatest ad campaign for a lieutenant governor candidate in Alaska history.
Read MorePerhaps auditioning for his next role at a Council on Foreign Relations event June 12, Gov. Mike Dunleavy meandered across a range of international topics with vague and superficial comments that Donald Trump would approve on Greenland, the war in Iran, relations with Canada and more.
What he said about the cost of the gasline, does not bode well for the project.
Asked about the fall elections and the U.S. Senate race, Dunleavy said he wasn’t sure what would happen, but claimed that the gasline would be a big issue.
Read MoreHere is a portion of the transcript, recorded for posterity by a Juneau reporter, of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s gasline emissions at the conclusion of the last special session.
Read MoreJust before the 1974 primary election in Alaska, Michael Carey sat down with a tape recorder to record ads by state and local candidates on KFAR and KFRB radio in Fairbanks.
The recording you can listen to here provides a good snapshot of the political situation in Alaska 52 years ago.
Read MoreEnstar, which is owned by TriSummit Utilities of Alberta, has opted to act like a political branch of the Dunleavy administration, focused on spreading hysteria about the gas supply situation in Southcentral Alaska instead of a solution.
Nothing the Legislature could do this summer will change the energy picture for this winter and beyond, contrary to the claims by Dunleavy and his allies.
Read MoreCynthia Henry, one of the leaders of the Republican Party in Alaska, has joined the “Build the Line!” cheerleading squad, now claiming that members of the Senate majority are the only thing standing between Alaskans and a blissful era of cheap energy.
The Republican National Committeewoman for Alaska, she put her name on a shameless Daily News-Miner letter to the editor that blames Sen. Scott Kawasaki for preventing the arrival of energy nirvana.
Read MoreThe most striking element of Sullivan’s presentation was his inability and/or unwillingness to talk about the president to perhaps the friendliest audience that he could have anywhere.
It’s bizarre that Sullivan would not address an audience of loyal Republicans—including what Sullivan called an “all-star” list of local co-hosts—about how proud he is to stand with Trump.
Read MoreThe lieutenant governor has only one job—other than looking after the state seal—and Nancy Dahlstrom isn’t getting the job done in supervising the Division of Elections.
In removing thousands of names from Alaska’s voter rolls, Division of Elections Directory Carol Beecher admitted to legislators this week, the state used old data that hasn’t been checked.
Read MoreHilcorp opposes the proposal that owner Texas billionaire Jeff Hildebrand be forced to start paying an oil tax that has always applied to ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil.
The proposal is “punitive” and aimed at Hilcorp and Hildebrand, according to one of Hildebrand’s Alaska executives.
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